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>The next series will go back to basics as Ash just travels through whatever the next region is with a dedicated group of companions.
Win or lose just cements himself as the second or first strongest trainer in the world. I don't see what possible conclusion there can be fore him after this that isn't a full reboot or just straight up retarded

Goh is taking over as the main protagonist.

Exactly. If Ash stays, it is either a true continuity reboot or a soft reboot like BW.

AIEEEEE NOT LIKE THIS COOLMONBROS

>soft reboot
I've never understood how BW was a soft reboot. Doesn't it literally open up to his trophies and shit from previous gens? And it was even the end of Charizard's character arc. And if it was SUPPOSED to be a reboot they fucked it up pretty bad by now since he's been all over and remet almost all of his past traveling companions

Fuck retiring, kill of this motherfucker

I hate the way he looks and I HATE his english VA. Subbed makes it a little more bearable.

BW at first was a soft reboot. They rebooted Ash's skill level and personality. However, they backtracked on that in the second half which is why you get stuff like Dawn's return, Charizard and OS flashbacks, and more focus on gen 1-4 Pokemon.

Ash's English VA has been bad for the past decade or so years now: Natochenny is still living in the shadow of Taylor, her predecessor.

At first she tried to imitate Taylor, that didn't work, then she tried to imitate Rica with the gruff but made it unclear and raspy, now it's an elementary school girl or gruff grown woman voice depending on the inflection.

Goddamn, when something out of 4Kids was better, TPCi just doesn't do this show justice (even if it is a kids' cartoon, the English VA who was on the dub for only 8 years did better than the last 16).

>Ash's skill level
here is a screenshot I personally took from the very first episode of BW
>diploma for participating in pokemon camp in Sinnoh
>teddiursa from May
>Soothe Bells from that tournament he won with Paul
>Focus Band from the Stonecutter in Johto
>Twinleaf Tournament Trophy
Funny enough, the only region he doesn't have proof of going through at this point is Kanto itself. I don't know everyone interprets this as a soft reboot, it was just a bad gen season of the anime. Unless there's a statement from a director or something, I think people are looking too far into things

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KANTRANNIES BTFO

>I don't know everyone interprets this as a soft reboot,
Because it was a soft reboot. All a soft reboot is a reset within the same continuity. They reset Ash's personality and skill level, while still maintaining it was a "continuation" of prior series.

Genuinely baffled at this. So, it's a soft reboot because they reset his skill level, despite the fact they gave him all the accomplishments of the past seasons including placing very high in 4 other leagues, which would maintain his high skill.
So, this is a special kind of reboot that makes everything on screen that's happened before the same, and maintaining the same character, and inarguably the same general skill because the two characters have the EXACT same accomplishments. By this logic EVERY generation is a soft reboot.
Do you think maybe it's not a reboot and they just fumbled a gen and made him look like shit?

And this also doesn't make any fucking sense with the second part of your comment
>However, they backtracked on that in the second half which is why you get stuff like Dawn's return, Charizard and OS flashbacks, and more focus on gen 1-4 Pokemon.
If it wasn't a hard reboot and was always supposed to maintain the exact same character just with different skill and personality, then why would introducing past characters make it a backtrack?